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		<title>We Did Not Imagine You, Ali</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the last day of a recent trip to Jordan, only a few hours before I had to leave for the airport to fly back to the US, I had the opportunity to visit Walid, an Iraqi man who has cancer. One of my DAI colleagues accompanied me and translated for me. The purpose of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After Kidnapping, Abu Naseer needs Resettlement</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Iraq, Abu Naseer was a mechanical engineer, working in the oil industry in the south of the country. After the US invasion of Iraq and overthrow of its government, as criminality and lawlessness spread, kidnapping became a business in Iraq. In 2005, Abu Naseer&#8217;s three year old son, Ali, was kidnapped. 
 The boy was tortured, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Worst Thing was the Separation from My Family&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Very recently, when Direct Aid Iraq met Abu Omar, we knew only that he had been tortured in detention centers in Iraq. He welcomed us into his small apartment in Amman, gave us tea and juice, and for nearly three hours told us the story of his arrest, torture, release, and escape to Jordan. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From &#8220;Nightmare&#8221; to &#8220;Prison&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1999, while at his shop in a busy commercial district of Baghdad, Abu Walid witnessed the murder of a neighboring shop owner and helped subdue the murderer. His courage that day and at the trial resulted in death threats that forced him and his family to flee, first their home, and then Iraq.

Abu Walid [...]]]></description>
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